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Cabinet Member Report – May 2017 to August 2017

Meeting: 12/09/2017 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Regulatory, Compliance and Corporate Services) (Item 18)

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Report of the Head of Regulation and Compliance

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Minutes:

The Committee considered the report of the Head of Regulation and Compliance that included the most recent report from the Cabinet Member – Regulatory, Compliance and Corporate Services.  

 

Councillor Lappin, Cabinet Member – Regulatory, Compliance and Corporate Services presented her report and drew attention, in particular, to the following issues:- 

 

·       Adult Social Care Day Care modernisation

·       Pre-paid cards for social care direct payment recipients

·       The financial risk to the Council posed by deficits in school budgets

·       Agile working proposals

·       Revenues Service and Sefton being the top performing Metropolitan authority in the country for business Rates Collection in 2016-17 and being the top performing authority in the Liverpool City Region for both Council Tax and Business Rates

·       Work undertaken by the Pay and Grading Team

·       Workforce learning and development, apprenticeships and the apprenticeship levy

·       Asset disposals

·       Work undertaken by Democratic Services

·       The unveiling of the VC Paving Stone for Harold Ackroyd at a special ceremony held at Southport War Memorial on 8 September 2017

 

Members asked questions/raised issues on the following matters:-

 

·       The excellent outcome in the Council securing a reduction to drainage of surface water to Schools.

 

RESOLVED:  That

 

(1)    

the update report from the Cabinet Member – Regulatory, Compliance and Corporate Services be noted; and

 

(2)

 

Councillor Lappin be thanked for her attendance at the meeting.